Brennan Carroll Tidbits

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Even with a busy season going on Carroll and the coaching staff is putting in as much time as possible with recruiting.
â€œIf weâ€™re not working on a football-specific game plan, then weâ€™re recruiting,â€ Carroll said.
â€œOur days are quite full. Thereâ€™s never enough time for recruiting so you keep fighting for ways to make time.â€
Unlike the previous regime, this staff has placed an emphasis on attending high school games during the season.

It can be a grind, but the staff has been receptive to its duties of seeing kids in action.
â€œItâ€™s hard, but itâ€™s our job,â€ Carroll said. â€œOur guys love to do it and have a great attitude about it. And our current players
have been great when weâ€™ve brought kids in on official visits they have been great helping hosting the kids. Itâ€™s a full program effort.â€

Although heâ€™s only been at UM for 10 months, he can already pick up on the differences in recruiting at the two schools.
â€œItâ€™s great not having a school (UCLA) 13 miles away from you constantly berating it,â€ Carroll said. â€œItâ€™s good that thereâ€™s a little
separation between the schools. Miami is a Miami town. They love their home team. The last place I was at, it was split right down the middle.â€

The UM staff has made it a point of emphasis in reaching out to the high school coaches in the area to make sure they develop a relationship with them.
â€œThe coaches have been amazing,â€ Carroll said. â€œWeâ€™ve gotten to hold some scrimmages at some local fields. Weâ€™ve gotten out to talk
to coaches because weâ€™re not allowed to talk to kids in person until December. The coaches have been phenomenal and weâ€™ve tried
in incorporate them as much as we can with what we do. Theyâ€™ve gotten to come to a lot of games, practices, and get to be around
us a little bit. Weâ€™ve gotten a great response from what we know. Thatâ€™s really the core of it all is having the coaches understand
what weâ€™re about and what our program is about.â€

The previous staff did not believe in bringing in official visitors during the season the past two years, but Carroll said they are not
against the notion of having visitors during the season. â€œIt will be whatever we need to do,â€ Carroll said.
â€œWe like to spend more time with them meaning after the season when we donâ€™t have the game prep, but weâ€™ll bring kids in during the season too.
Itâ€™s whatever the situation needs.â€

All-American

For all the work Golden and his staff are reportedly putting in, I really want to see some immediate returns and see the fruits of this labor. There are lots of bridges that need to be rebuilt and a brand that needs to be refurbished that will take some time, but we need the honeymoon class to be well ranked with copious talent to infuse into the program.

Junior

The previous staff did not believe in bringing in official visitors during the season the past two years, but Carroll said they are not
against the notion of having visitors during the season. “It will be whatever we need to do,” Carroll said.
“We like to spend more time with them meaning after the season when we don’t have the game prep, but we’ll bring kids in during the season too.
It’s whatever the situation needs.”

Probably one of the better things for that staff; they needed to concentrate as much on the games as possible plus with the way our attendance is, it's probably better if they dont come during the season.

All-American

The previous staff did not believe in bringing in official visitors during the season the past two years, but Carroll said they are not
against the notion of having visitors during the season. “It will be whatever we need to do,” Carroll said.
“We like to spend more time with them meaning after the season when we don’t have the game prep, but we’ll bring kids in during the season too.
It’s whatever the situation needs.”

Probably one of the better things for that staff; they needed to concentrate as much on the games as possible plus with the way our attendance is, it's probably better if they dont come during the season.

Senior

All this talk about what the previous staff did or didn't believe in or bringing in recruits during the season is meaningless. It's put up or shut up time for Golden. You've seen the comarison to these championship coaches like saban. Golden needs to bring some impact guys in year two plain and simple like these other championship coaches did.

Moderator

What's consistently missing from recruiting discussions on here these days is that all of the other coaches will be hot and heavy on the trail after bowl season. THAT is when I expect us to lose a couple commits. Perhaps that's another reason why coach Golden is trying to get as many early enrollees as possible.

Recruiting in general is kind of a crap shoot. Time will tell but its clear that coach Golden and staff take a professional approach to what they are doing. I have to believe that will produce some kind of positive results, even if it doesnt produce a bunch of 4-5 star commits.

All-ACC

Yep. Nice to see this staff making an effort to rebuild relationships with local programs. Didn't RS once make a comment to the effect of "we only want to recruit kids from winning programs"? As if a quality athlete couldn't possibly play on a high school team with a losing record.

Senior

Yep. Nice to see this staff making an effort to rebuild relationships with local programs. Didn't RS once make a comment to the effect of "we only want to recruit kids from winning programs"? As if a quality athlete couldn't possibly play on a high school team with a losing record.

All you have to do is look at the roster and see Miami had kids from teams with losing records. That's was just Shannon tryng to spice up a silly thought yet the concept is valid. Pretty obvious he didn't follow it to a T. Not even close.

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Yep. Nice to see this staff making an effort to rebuild relationships with local programs. Didn't RS once make a comment to the effect of "we only want to recruit kids from winning programs"? As if a quality athlete couldn't possibly play on a high school team with a losing record.

All you have to do is look at the roster and see Miami had kids from teams with losing records. That's was just Shannon tryng to spice up a silly thought yet the concept is valid. Pretty obvious he didn't follow it to a T. Not even close.